Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx) Group published a set of market statistics for the full year of 2014 on its website today (Thursday).
Major record highs
(previous record highs are in brackets)
    - New Main Board listings: 96 (94 in 2010)
 
- New listings (Main Board and GEM): 122 (117 in 2002)
 
- Fundraising through post-IPO share sales: $708 bil ($409 bil in 2010)
 
- Fundraising through IPOs and post-IPO share sales: $936 bil ($859 bil in 2010)
 
- ETF turnover: $1.2 tril ($903.1 bil in 2013)
 
- Derivatives market turnover: 142.4 mil contracts (140.5 mil in 2011)
 
- Derivatives market open interest: 12.9 mil contracts on 29 Dec (10.4 mil on 28 Sep 2011)
 
- Commodities market trading: 177.2 mil lots transacted, equivalent to US$14.9 tril and 4.0 bil tonnes of material (171.1 mil lots transacted, equivalent to US$14.6 tril and 4.0 bil tonnes of material in 2013).
Other securities market highlights
    - IPO fundraising rose 34 per cent from 2013 to US$29.3 bil, the world’s second highest total, according to data from Dealogic (HKEx’s securities market has been in the world’s top five in IPO fundraising every year since 2002).
 
- Market capitalisation exceeded $26 tril for the first time and reached an all-time high of $26.5 tril on 4 September 2014.
 
- Securitised derivatives (derivative warrants and CBBCs) turnover# was the world’s largest for the eighth consecutive year.
 
- The average daily turnover of Northbound and Southbound trading under Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect was RMB5.6 bil and HK$929 mil respectively between the programme’s launch on 17 Nov and 31 Dec*.
Other derivatives market highlights
    - January-December trading volume of H-shares Index Options, Mini H-shares Index Futures, HSCEI Dividend Point Index Futures (another H-shares product), Renminbi Currency Futures - USD/CNH Futures and Flexible H-shares Index Options reached new highs.
Other commodities market highlights
    - Average daily volume rose 4 per cent from 2013 to a new high of 700,204 lots.
 
- Aluminium trading rose 3 per cent from 2013 to a new high of 68.8 mil lots.
 
- Zinc trading rose 2 per cent from 2013 to a new high of 31.8 mil lots.
 
- Nickel trading rose 39 per cent from 2013 to a new high of 19.4 mil lots.
 
- At year-end, London Metal Exchange's market share was 82 per cent of global exchange-traded metals futures. 
 
For more details, please visit the HKEx and LMEwebsites.
Notes
    
        
            | $: Hong Kong dollars | 
        
            | US$/USD: US dollars | 
        
            | CNH: Offshore Renminbi | 
        
            | New listings include transfers from Growth Enterprise Market (GEM) to Main Board | 
        
            | IPO: Initial public offering | 
        
            | ETF: Exchange Traded Fund | 
        
            | CBBC: Callable Bull/Bear Contract | 
        
            | #:Turnover from January to November 2014 (latest available figures) | 
        
            | *:31 Dec was the last trading day of Northbound trading in 2014 while 24 Dec was the last trading day of Southbound trading in 2014. | 
        
            | Securities market: Products traded on Main Board and GEM | 
        
            | Derivatives market: Futures and options traded at HKEx | 
        
            | Commodities market: Commodities traded at London Metal Exchange | 
        
            | Some figures have been rounded | 
    
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